Douglas Otis wrote:
On Jun 22, 2006, at 10:45 AM, Eric Allman wrote:
There are many reasons I don't like this proposal. Let me start with
the easily fixed ones:
(1) Overloading existing tags to add new functionality is absurd.
Adding "d" to the end of the version has nothing to do with the
version;
Eric's right there IMO.
>> (3) Wasn't the issue of downgrade attacks discussed in Dallas and
>> resolved on the list? In specific, it was issue 1196 (Upgrade
>> indication and protection against downgrade attacks). As near as
>> I can tell, the exact same issues that Doug is raising were discussed
>> in this issue, and a frankly much more elegant approach was proposed.
>> Why is this issue alive again?
>
> This issue still needs review.
We have consensus that 1196 [1] is closed. One voice doesn't change
that.
Stephen.
[1] https://rt.psg.com/Ticket/Display.html?id=1196
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